Back when the coronavirus was considered a global emergency and lockdown was in order, I found myself having to change my library items from physical pick-ups to digital on Kindle. One of them was Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan.
It’s a contemporary about a woman, as the title suggests, opening a new bakery in a town she’s moved into. Along the way, she finds herself taking care of an injured bird and getting close to a beekeeper. I found it being the light read I definitely needed at the time.
If you had one, what was it? I noticed that House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune was often cited as one on BookTube.
Comfort may not quite be the right word. But A Journal of the Plague Year by Defoe and The Plague by Camus put things into perspective.
Things like rats fighting each other for food because the restaurants closed were suddenly more explicable.
And refrigerated trucks with bodies in NYC seemed more reasonable compared to streets choked with dead bodies.
I also found reading about Yellow Fever, the Spanish Flu, Malaria, immunological privilege, differential immunity’s impact on wars, revolutionary war inoculation campaigns, the history of quarantines, etc very interesting. The Spanish Flu in particular had a lot of parallels right down to the immediate embrace of cloth mask mandates with no evidence that they slowed spread.